---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Environmental Quality. (6/30/22)"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Environmental Quality. (6/30/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 27"
citation: "Louisiana SB 27 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eddie Lambert"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-10"
last_action: "2022-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b705e14-83c5-46dc-9398-ccb66b727c98"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241575"
source_hash: "31c77f98a52618974b4a5e24af6a979cc2da61cf024fdc534f28ead80d681b5e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana SB 27 (2022) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Environmental Quality. (6/30/22)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB27 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247033)
2. **SB27 Act 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279843)
3. **SB27 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263286)
4. **SB27 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277867)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#145) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#753) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eddie Lambert — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-05-13** Effective date 6/30/2022.
- **2022-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 4. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2022.
- **2022-05-02** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-04-27** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-04** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-29** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b705e14-83c5-46dc-9398-ccb66b727c98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).